Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	work_n	1,535	5	5.1853	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28214	The god-father's advice to his son shewing the necessity of performing the baptismal vow and the danger of neglecting it : with general instructions to young persons to lead a religious life and prepare them for their confirmation and worthy receiving of the blessed sacrament : very necessary for parents, &c. to give their children or others committed to their care / by John Birket ...	Birket, John.	1700 (1700)	Wing B2975; ESTC R16106	33,239	50

of us have the face to rob him of that day by spending it any otherwise than to his honour and glory Satan I doubt not will be ready to tempt you sometimes in this case as he tempted our first parents in reference to the forbidden Fruit and as he then upbraided God with niggardliness in that he had not given them freedom to eat of all the Trees in the Garden insinuating as if the Lord had restrainted them from the use of that one out of some self-end for said the Serpent the Lord doth know that in the day you eat thereof you shall be as God knowing good and evil I doubt not I say but as Satan dealt with our first parents in reference to the forbidden fruit so may he deal with you in reference to the Lords Day insinuating as if it were very hard that you may not take your liberty and recreate your self on that day being tir'd with the toyl and labour of all the week beside But my Son have a care of Satans subtilty and let the consideration of Gods bounty to us in the concern answer all the sly suggestions of the wicked one For if God had been pleased to allow us but one day for our use and reserve six wholly for his own we should have had no reason to have complained he being our Creator and we the work of his hands but since he has been so liberal as to grant us six days for our Worldly business and reserved one only wholly to himself we are the most unreasonable creatures in the World if we are not content with so liberal a proportion and strive to the utmost of our power to glorify him on that day according to his own appointment Whensoever therefore you are tempted to absent your selves from the publick Worship of God give no entertainment to any such temptation but reject it with an indignation like that of Joseph to his wanton mistress and say how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Have a care of being so unjust and ungrateful to God upon whom you have your whole dependance as to be seduced by the ill example of those profane people in this licentious age who are so insensible of the grace and mercy of God in Christ Jesus that altho without that they are liable to perish every moment but through the Divine patience and forbearance are suffered to live year after year yet cannot find in their hearts to spend that one day in the Lords service which he has purposely set apart for his own more solemn worship Our blessed Saviour as St. Luke tells in the parable of the wise Steward Luke 12. 43. has pronounced the Servant blessed whom the Lord when he cometh shall find faithful and conscientiously discharging his duty but what shall become then of those profane People whom the Lord if he should come to judgement according to the ancient tradition of the Church upon the Lords day shall find either sleeping upon their Beds or busying themselves about the World making provision for the Flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof or any way gratifying their sensual appetites instead of doing the work of the Lord. Do you think that if that terrible day of the Lord shall come at such a time it will not be infinitely more comfortable to be found upon your Knees lifting up your Heart in prayer to God and praising him with a chearful voice in giving attention to the ministry of his holy Word or finally in exercising your self some way or other to the glory of God Thus having given you my advice in reference to your constant attendance upon the publick worship of God I shall in the 2d place shew you in what manner you ought to behave your self in the Congregation of Gods people that so your going thither may be for the better and not for the worse First therefore you must consider this that when you go to serve the Lord in those places which are set apart for Divine Worship you then go into Gods more especial presence For so David testifies Ps 100. 1 2. Where he exhorts the Jews to praise God the more chearfully in the Temple as being the special place of his gracious presence O come says he let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our Salvation L●t us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with Psalms And because we should not think that he is less present now in the religious Assemblies of Christians than he was in the Jewish Temple our Saviour has expresly declared Mat. 18. 20. that when two or three are gathered together in his name he is there in the midst of them And you may be sure that if he will vouchsafe to honour so small a number with his presence as two or three so assembled to do him worship and service he will not deny his gracious presence to the greatest Congregation And upon the account of such places being dedicated to the service of God and of his being more especially present in them upon these accounts I suppose it was that St Paul reproved the Corinthians so severely for their rude behaviour in the Church 1 Cor. 11. 22. what says he have you not houses to eat and to drink in or despise ye the Church of God Your heart therefore being thus preposessest with an awful dread and reverence of the Divine presence in the house of prayer I would advise you in the 2d place to make a sutable preparation before you enter into the house of God See that you order your necessary business therefore every Lords Day in the morning so as that you may go to Church before the beginning of Divine Service But before you go among other preparations I advise you to read over the Psalms the first and second Lessons as also the Epistle and Gospel appointed for that day and as you read observe and meditate upon the most material passages contained therein and if there be any thing more remarkable than ordinary which you do not understand be not ashamed to desire information of any in the Family that may be able to give it By this means you will be better able to read those portions of Scripture with the Minister in time of divine service more attentively and in all probability the Holy Spirit may then dart more pious thoughts into your mind and more enlighten your understanding than it did upon your first reading them over in private Having thus exercised your self till it is time for you to go to Church so soon as you are got thither see that you do not loyter in the Church yard neither make it your business to discourse with others about any worldly matters unless it be a word or two of very great necessity for you will be in great danger of having those things run in your mind and distract your thoughts in time of divine service which you have